Petition #11680201

• Richmond City, Virginia. filing started December 14, 1802.
• Court: Legislative
• Salutation: To the honorable, the general assembly of the commonwealth of Virginia

Abstract

Free black Sally Brown asks that she be allowed to inherit her deceased brother's estate. Both she and her brother, Billy Brown, had been emancipated by Dr. Robert Brown, a Richmond physician, but when her brother died the great portion of the estate given him by his master was "vested by right of escheat in the commonwealth."

Result: Reasonable, reported.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Copy of Last Will and Testament of Robert Brown, 18 March 1785; Copy of Deed of Emancipation, Robert Brown to Billy and Sally, 17 April 1784; Deposition Questions and Answers, Edmund Randolph, 19 November 1802
• Pages of related documents: 9

5 people are documented within petition 11680201

• 2 Enslaved
• 2 Free persons of color
• 1 Petitioner
• 1 Other

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Citation information

Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

• Legislative Petitions

Subjects

• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Property owners (Black)
• Education and literacy (FPOC)
• Bequest (enslaved)
• Enslaver (FPOC)